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Hampton Union, January 29, 2008
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
A family spokesman for one of the other four Seabrook men who served time for Gregory Smart's murder believes Billy Flynn should not yet be paroled.
Robert Fowler, older brother of Raymond Fowler, 36, said Flynn, "took a lot of people down with that one decision he made."
On May 1, 1990, Ray Fowler, 18, waited in the car with driver Vance "J.R." Lattime, 17, who supplied the car and the gun, while Flynn, 15, and Patrick "Pete" Randall, 17, went into Smart's Derry condo. Flynn was having an affair with Smart's wife, then 22-year-old Winnacunnet High School media coordinator Pamela Smart. Flynn testified he asked God for forgiveness and shot Gregory Smart in the head.
"I have sympathy for people, when you make a decision of that magnitude, there's no way to change it," said Rob Fowler. "I don't feel he (Flynn) should continue his life and live happily ever after. We (the family) talk a lot about this. I feel he shouldn't get out on parole. When you take someone else's life, you take your own. He took a lot of people down, my brother, Pam, it's not something you can just say you're sorry ..."
The prosecution portrayed Pamela Smart as the mastermind who controlled her young lover to commit murder. Flynn admitted his guilt and testified against her. Smart is serving a life sentence without parole in New York for first-degree murder.
"We're not convinced she was mastermind," said Rob Fowler, who has been in contact with Pamela's mother, Linda Wojas.
Rob Fowler believes the jury never got the full story, because his brother was never called on to testify. Flynn was not as innocent as the prosecution portrayed him to be, Fowler said. Fowler believes Pete Randall, who said in court he wanted to be a professional hit man, was the deciding factor.
"We felt if Pete wasn't with Bill that night, he would have chickened out," said Fowler. "It was Pete's decision to actually go through with it. Bill hesitated, he wasn't going to do it, he needed someone else's support. In my opinion, that was the deciding factor ... Raymond feels the same thing. The way they were talking (that night) something else happened that wasn't told in trial."
Raymond Fowler is out on parole, having served 11 years out of a 15- to 30-year prison sentence for his 1992 guilty plea to murder conspiracy and attempted burglary. He has said he thought the teens were going to burglarize the home, not kill Smart.
Lattime was released on parole in 2005. Randall remains in Maine State Prison.
"I think it's a touchy issue with most people," said Fowler, "the fact it happened around here."


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Source: redicecreations.com, Dean Dominic De Lucia
December 4, 2011–From São Paulo, Brazil, Dean Dominic De Lucia discusses his book: "Hollow Earth in the Puranas." De Lucia was born in Bethesda, Maryland. He studied Business Administration at the University of Baltimore, and later on completed a two-year course in translating at the Catholic University in São Paulo.
He has maintained a life-long interest in Indian Hindu philosophy and spiritual practices, which ultimately led him to take up Vedic astrology. He began his studies in 1981 under Nalini Kanta Das or "Tom Hopke", and has been a student and practitioner of the art ever since. His articles were published in two Bangalore magazines, "The Astrological Magazine" and "Modern Astrology." Dean has also written a book called "Astrologia Vedica".
We'll discuss Hindu traditions, specifically, the Vedas and the Puranas as Dean has found accounts and stories in the Vedic scriptures related to "The Hollow Earth" and "The Ancient Ones", the demigods or the giants that are alleged to inhabit our inner Earth. Dean will talk about the present day search for the openings to the hollow Earth as well as older accounts and expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic Circle. Most are familiar with Admiral Byrd's claim of exploring the inner Earth but there are others, of which involved Norwegian explorers, such as Olaf Jansen's Story, also known as "The Smokey God - A Voyage to the Inner World" and Fridtjof Nansen's "Fram" expedition. We'll talk about these and the links in Vedic mythology and the stories of a northerly Shambhala. ~Red Ice Creations
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Pet businesses are thriving in a way that few industries can match in the current post-recession economy, and franchises are a big part of that success, said Andrew Hill, co-owner of Pet Assist, a provider of pet care services based in Sharon, Mass.
According to a report by the International Franchise Association, Franchise Business Economic Outlook for 2015, from 2013-2014 the U.S. saw the following franchise increases:
11,826 franchise establishments were added
Employment percentages rose from 2.5 percent to 2.8 percent
Outputs rose by $40 billion
GDP rose $22 billion
While these statistics refer to franchises in general, the largest number of which are restaurants, pet franchises are clearly on the up and up. If you look at the growth in pet ownership over the past few years, as well as the increasing willingness of owners to spend on their pets, it's clear that this franchise trend will certainly extend to the pet sector, Hill said. For instance, according to the American Pet Products Association's 2015-2016 National Pet Owners Survey, 65 percent of U.S. homes have a pet, up from 56 percent in 1988. More pets mean more sales, Hill added.
"More and more people consider domesticated animals as a part of the family," Hill said. "Pet owners have become increasingly willing to spend extra money on not only health care costs, but day care, grooming, obedience training, accessories and clothing, and other specialty products and services."
Thus, the industry has seen higher profits in those areas than ever before, and will continue to do so in all types of business, from national pet product chains to smaller dog walking and pet sitting franchises, Hill said.


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We see German myths and fairy tales come to life on the uplands and in the forests and localities surrounding the Weser river and meet Sleeping Beauty, Baron von Münchhausen and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Baron von Münchhausen and Sleeping Beauty along the way.
The Weserbergland Trail starts in Hann. Münden – which is also the starting point of the Werra Castle Trail. We head north above the Weser. The Weserbergland Trail takes us to Bodenwerder, the residence of Baron von Münchhausen, who was nicknamed the Lügenbaron or "Baron of Lies". We then hike up the Solling hills, discover what the forest adventure park has to offer and explore a moor. There is also a chance to take a look around the Sababurg, the castle where Sleeping Beauty is said to have fallen into her 100-year slumber.
At Bad Karlshafen we find the city of hot springs and in the Reinhardswald we explore one of the most sparsely populated forests in Germany. We continue to Rinteln, a small town with many buildings dating back to the Weser Renaissance period, and past the visitor mine in Kleinenbremen. Without a word of a lie: our hike ends in Porta Westfalica at the water gap of the Weser.
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Starts: Hann. Münden
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Number of stages: 13
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1. Google Chrome's bookmark sync will be extended to sync the documents stored in Google Docs.
2. Google will launch a service that indexes and ranks web applications.
3. Google will use different interfaces for displaying search results, depending on your query.
4. Google's search engine will group related results.
5. Google Image Search will let you upload an image and will show related images from the web.
6. Google Street View's images will become searchable and Google will start to show information about different places in Street View.
7. Google will release an online development environment optimized for building web applications.
8. An open platform for search experiments: tweak Google's ranking factors, customize the interface and create a better search engine.
9. Android will have more users than Windows Mobile.
11. Google Drive will finally launch, but it will only be an extended version of Google Docs. Instead of sending attachments, you'll be able to upload files to Google Drive from Gmail.
12. Google Wave won't become successful, but its features will be used in other Google products.
13. Google will buy True Knowledge and will launch a fact search engine.
14. Gmail's spam filtering algorithms will be more transparent and you'll be able to define custom rules for flagging messages as spam.
15. Google Trends will show popular web sites from different categories.
16. Google Desktop will be discontinued and replaced by Google Quick Search Box.
17. If you use Google Chrome, you'll be able to use the most important features of Chrome OS.
18. Google users will be able to add comments and start conversations if they want to find some information about a hot topic.
19. Google Toolbar will be available for Chrome and Google will start to bundle Chrome with Google Toolbar for IE.
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Reviewing Redbox Instant, Amazon Video and More
Could Amazon Prime Video, Hulu Plus or the new Redbox Instant service be considered "Netflix killers"? Not really. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode reports.
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That seems to be the going rate these days. Private sales are about it for these, Tapco quit selling them a long time ago. They went for like $17 back then, sometimes on sale for less than $10.
Before you invest in one do some research on the machining required to finish them. For a blowback build they wouldn't be too bad, but getting them properly heat treated to withstand a .308 build looks to be difficult. There is also a major lack of accurate blueprints to work from.


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In November I sent my sister and her family to the Harlem Globetrotter Game in Boise, Idaho. My nieces and nephew had no idea who the Harlem Globetrotters were as they have never heard of them. By the night's end, they had a blast and met some pretty awesome players.
From tossing a bucket of water into the crowd, depantsing a referee and what appears to look like a player falling off the basketball hoop there were so many laughs had by all.
After the game, Globetrotter stars took the time to sign autographs and take photos with them. The basketballs were sold at the arena for $20 a piece but then each player they were able to track down signed it for them, essentially making the balls priceless.
If you are looking for a night out with your family and the Harlem Globetrotters are coming to a location close to you, you have to go! Use this link to save yourself 25% of the ticket price. My sister didn't tell her kids where they were going, she kept it a surprise. They had a great time and many laughs were had by all.


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Laurence Gonzales's electrifying adventure opens in the jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees—the bonobos—is running for her life.
A civil war has exploded and Jenny is trapped in its crosshairs . . . She runs to the camp of a fellow primatologist.
The rebels have already been there.
Everyone is dead except a young girl, the daughter of Jenny's brutally murdered fellow scientist—and competitor.
Jenny and the child flee, Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely—her name is Lucy.
Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment.
She is part human, part ape—a hybrid human being . . .
Laurence Gonzales's novel grabs you from its opening pages and you stay with it, mesmerized by the shy but fierce, wonderfully winning Lucy.
"Michael Crichton fans will go ape for this fascinating [book]."
—PEOPLE (3 stars out of 4)
"What does it mean to be human? This question is at the heart of Gonzales' multifaceted tale. . . Gonzales poses some big questions that readers will think about long after turning the last page. Lucy is a great read—and not just for adults. It's not classified as a young adult novel, but it could easily become a YA hit as well as a best-seller in the general fiction market."
—Teresa Budasi, Chicago Sun-Times
"Eminently believable . . . both heartbreaking and heartwarming, hard to put down and hard to forget. It is original like Lucy."
—The Associated Press
"[Gonzales has] Crichton's gift for page-turning storytelling, but also a vivid, literary-grade prose style, and a knack for getting inside his characters' heads."
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—Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
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"An imaginative leap in a nail-biting story. . .Gonzales raises profound questions about identity, family, animal and human rights, and genetic engineering without compromising the ever-escalating suspense. Lucy is irresistible, her predicament wrenching, and Gonzales' imaginative, sweet-natured, hard-charging, and deeply inquisitive thriller will be a catalyst for serious thought and debate."
"Masterful. . . utterly memorable."
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"A fast-paced Crichtonesque thriller. . ."
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Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) payments in Bates County, Missouri totaled $769,860 from 1995-2019‡.
Counties in Bates County, Missouri Receiving Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) payments, 1995-2019‡
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 80 million Americans have been infected with H1N1 swine flu, up to 16,000 have been killed and more than 360,000 hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
But 90 percent of the most vulnerable people remain unvaccinated, with only about 61 million Americans having received shots, the CDC said.
Swine flu vaccine is still widely available, with more than 130 million doses produced and 160 million people at high priority for getting the vaccine.
The pandemic, which began in March, is on the wane but health officials stress that influenza is unpredictable and could come back or mutate.
And this new virus, while it has not caused more deaths than seasonal influenza, has killed younger people than seasonal flu does.
About 90 percent of deaths in an average year are among people over 65, while 90 percent of those seriously ill or killed by the new virus are much younger and include as many as 1,730 children.
Health experts say vaccination is by far the best way to ensure the virus does not come back or mutate into a new and more dangerous form, but the vaccine rolled out slowly and the public is now skeptical of the need to be vaccinated.
The U.S. government struggled for months to work with vaccine makers to get immunizations out. Now it is struggling to get rid of tens of millions of doses it purchased.
"As of January 2, an estimated 20.3 percent of the U.S. population (61 million persons) had been vaccinated, including 27.9 percent of persons in the initial target groups and 37.5 percent of those in the limited vaccine subset," the CDC said in its report.
"An estimated 29.4 percent of U.S. children aged 6 months to 18 years had been vaccinated." The CDC said this rate is similar to what is seen for seasonal influenza, which kills an estimated 36,000 Americans and up to 500,000 people globally each year.
More pregnant women than usual have been vaccinated -- 38 percent as compared to between 15 percent and 25 percent in an average year. Pregnant women are always at high risk from any flu and they accounted for an unusually high percentage of those sickened and killed by H1N1.
"The results in this report show that nearly 90 percent of adults aged under 65 years with medical conditions that increase their risk for influenza-related complications remain unvaccinated,' the CDC added. These include otherwise healthy people with asthma or diabetes.
And just 22 percent of healthcare workers say they have been vaccinated, although they are more likely to be infected and can infect their vulnerable patients.
Five companies are supplying swine flu vaccine to the U.S. market -- Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, AstraZeneca unit MedImmune, CSL and GlaxoSmithKline.
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Holts Summit City Hall Partners with Daniel Boone Regional Library
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HOLTS SUMMIT - Holts Summit celebrated its open house and collaboration with the Daniel Boone Regional Library Tuesday at their new city hall location.
The new building opened in July. It houses the city administration, sewer department, and street department along with a library-to-go locker system and drop box.
The new system will expand library services to Holts Summit by allowing library card users to order library items such as books and CD's online and then pick them up at the lockers located at city hall.
The new system will also have a drive-thru drop box that will allow people to drop off their rented items.
Melissa Carr, Director of the Daniel Boone Regional Library, says the library will come by five days a week to deliver the new material.
Both she and City Administrator Brian Crane think this a good way to expand library opportunities to Holts Summit.
"Make things accessible and easy for people, they're much more likely to use that. So we want this area to have great access to library materials," said Carr.
Crane says they had been looking at every opportunity to expand some type of library service, and this will be a great fit for the community.
The lockers will be open Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.


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This Audubon Society field guide features 800+ pages of information on the subject of Trees in the Western region of North America. Approximately 900 color images will show more than 300 species of trees in their natural habitats. This guide utilizes visual organization of species by leaf shape, flowers, fruit, and cones for easy identification and includes a range map for each species covered. 103813, Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees - Western Region, Field Guide to North American Trees - Western Region Audubon Society, Field Guide to Western Region North American Trees Audubon Society, Audubon Society Western Region Field Guide to North American Trees, Audubon Society Western RegionField Guide to North American Trees, Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees - Western Region, Audubon Society Field Guide to Western Region North American Trees, guide book, field guide, field book, field guidebook, trees, NA trees, tree identification, identifying trees.
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"Beginning in the mid-1940's, Kenton found an enthusiastic, ever-growing, devoted audience. His music seemingly spoke to the postwar young and veterans of World War II. The enveloping, orgasmic sound of the orchestra had a hypnotic quality. The general feeling was that Kenton was hip. And though many critics disagreed vehemently, supporters of the orchestra would have none of that. They loved with a passion this vivid, often stirring, immoderately loud music that made them feel good and seemed to promise something for the future."
- Burt Korall, Jazz author and critic
There's a tremendous bond between Jazz musicians.
They know how hard it is to play this music; harder still to create it.
As a result, Jazz musicians have a ready respect for others who demonstrate a facility in navigating the music's many challenges.
The knowing look; the smile of appreciation; the nodding of the head in approval are all subtle signs accorded to a musician who can make it happen in Jazz.
Jazz doesn't exist; it has to be brought into existence by the improvising skills of the musician, individually and in combination.
Of course, the melodies, chord structures and blues frameworks that these improvisations are based on are, for the most part, written compositions.
But this notated music only serves as a point of departure.
Jazz is almost impossible to teach, but it can be learned.
In Jazz, one of the sincerest forms of flattery is indeed imitation; copying the work of others in order to get the "feel" of how Jazz is done and to develop one's own sensibilities for making it.
It's like trying on our elders' clothes until one is able to "dress" oneself with originality, assurance and style.
When it all comes together and one finds one's own voice in Jazz, there's a tremendous sense of satisfaction and power in what the author Arthur Koestler once described as "The Act of Creation."
Although I am not at all practiced in other, creative arts, I am told by many who are that artists share a similar affinity with the work of each other be they painters or poets or photographers; essayists or writers or biographers; playwrights or actors or movie directors.
Sometimes these artistic accords cross lines and combine well with one another.
Imagine viewing motion pictures with film scores by Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith or Ennio Morricone, or listening to Leonard Bernstein or Sting read the narrative to Tchaikovsky's Peter and The Wolf while the symphony orchestra plays out the sounds of each of the characters or any of the multitude of multi-media experiences that we create for ourselves like viewing photographs or reading a novel while listening to music.
The arts blend and form a concurrence with one another because each in their own way takes us through perception into the world of imagination, emotion and atmospheric mood.
Artistic expression also satisfies our need to shape our own world; our individualism, as it were.
Part of growing up is rejecting the world of our parents [without, of course, rejecting them] and seeking out our own interests and world view. Artists help us to do this by replacing the powerful ambiguity of imitation with the thrilling assurance of finding our own preferences.
Artists often pave the way for the new. In Jazz, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, and Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives were followed by the big bands of The Swing Era and they, in turn, were followed by Bebop and various forms of progressive or modern Jazz.
In painting, Greek and Roman art was followed by that of Medieval Times, and then the Renaissance, Mannerism, The Baroque and the various schools of Modern Art including, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impression and the many schools of Twentieth Century painting and sculpture.
Two examples of artists that strike me as constantly searching and probing for new directions while having an artistic unity based in iconoclasm are the painter Wassily Kandinsky [1866-1944] and the composer-arranger-bandleader Stan Kenton [1911-1979].
Put into a simpler form: I like listening to Kenton's music while viewing Kandinsky's art. Both are known for their daring.
Kandinsky died in 1944, a few years after Kenton formed his first big band in 1941. As a Russian living in
, Kandinsky's art reflected the chaos of
German culture before and between the two, world wars. Germany
A leading member of a group of
artists known as "Der Blaue Reiter" [The Blue Horsemen], Kandinsky
abandoned representational art altogether. Munich
Using a rainbow of colors and a free, dynamic brushwork, Kandinsky created a completely non-objective style.
Whatever traces of representation his work contains are quite unintentional – his aim was to charge form and color with a purely spiritual meaning [as he put it] by eliminating all resemblance to the physical world.
Not to push the analogy between art and music too closely, but Stan Kenton in his music, as did Kandinsky in his painting, eventually eschewed representational forms of the Jazz while pursuing more abstract forms of the music.
He didn't want his band to swing or his music to be danced to, he wanted it to be modern, contemporary, and progressive.
But most of all he wanted his music to be listened to, to have an impact, to be felt!
Big, brassy and bombastic, Kenton's musical conception was orchestral bordering on the grandiose. His music wasn't mainstream, if anything, it was characterized by a concerted effort to attack established Jazz "traditions."
Can you imagine standing in front of the Kenton band when it unleashed the power and majesty of its music?
Trumpets screaming, French Horns heralding, trombones blatting, and tuba's bellowing bass notes – what a rush!
I feel the same flash of excitement when I view Kandinsky's paintings with their bold, bright colors, non-objective configurations and juxtaposition of shapes and patterns.
Both Kandinsky and Kenton were spurred on by the artistic urge to find their own style; to do it their way.
"Kandinsky's—or any artist's [Kenton?]—ideas are not important to us unless we are convinced of the importance of his pictures. Did he create a viable style? Admittedly, his work demands an intuitive response that may be hard for some of us, yet the painting here reproduced has density and vitality, and a radiant freshness of feeling that impresses us even though we are uncertain what exactly the artist has expressed." [H.W. Janson, History of Art].


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By Tim Lister, CNN
The balance sheet for the first quarter of 2012 in Afghanistan does not make for cheerful reading. In fact, it is steeped in red.
In the debit column: a spike in attacks on NATO troops by Afghan soldiers, the Kandahar massacre allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier and deadly protests prompted by the burning of Qurans.
Add to that slow progress in subduing the Taliban (especially in east Afghanistan), the glacial revival of the U.S. relationship with Pakistan and the growing impatience of NATO members, from Ottawa to Paris, to head for the exit and the outlook doesn't seem bright.
On the credit side, some of the goals laid out by President Barack Obama in his 2009 speech at West Point, when he announced an increase of 30,000 in U.S. troop numbers, are within sight.
The president said then that the overarching goal in Afghanistan was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Since then, Osama bin Laden has been killed, and other senior al Qaeda figures have been taken off the battlefield. Intensive nighttime raids in Afghanistan by U.S. Special Forces and the drone campaign in Pakistan's tribal territories have degraded al Qaeda and associated jihadist groups - even if other al Qaeda franchises in places such as Yemen, Somalia and the Sahel are a growing challenge.
In his West Point speech, Obama also said the additional U.S. troops would "increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight."
Standing up the Afghans
The training of local forces has accelerated, and in several provinces leadership has been handed over to Afghan security forces. Afghans are now responsible for securing areas where about half the population lives.
Paula Broadwell, author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," spent much of the past two years in Afghanistan. She said Afghan security forces have come a long way in a relatively short period of time.
But she cautioned: "We can't expect to stand up more than a basic force in just two years of effort. The question is whether it will continue on a pace that is fast enough to ready them to assume the lead by 2014."
She said, "About 40% of the Afghan units I visited in 2010 and 2011 are capable of operating 'effectively with advisers' - but that means they're still dependent on U.S. coalition partnership or support."
In remarks at the Brookings Institution this week, Gen. John Allen, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, described the quality of that military and police leadership as "mixed."
Complicating the transition is a spike in attacks on NATO forces this year by their supposed allies in Afghan uniforms - what are known as "green-on-blue" attacks. So far this year, 16 NATO soldiers have been killed by their Afghan allies - that's almost one-fifth of all allied casualties. These attacks have led the U.S. military to reinforce protection measures such as a "guardian angel" program where sleeping coalition soldiers are guarded by fellow soldiers.
Such measures don't exactly enhance mutual trust. Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, says, "NATO's withdrawal strategy requires a high degree of trust between small numbers of military advisers embedded with much larger units of Afghan troops in order to succeed. This trust has now been eroded to a dangerous degree."
Taliban on the defensive
In southern Afghanistan especially, the surge has forced the Taliban to adopt new tactics, engaging NATO-led forces less frequently and increasingly relying on roadside bombs and suicide attacks. According to coalition figures, in the last year, insurgent attacks overall have decreased some 22% and in some parts of southern Afghanistan by much more. But thanks to the devastating effects of such attacks, civilian casualties rose to their highest level last year since 2001.
There has been progress in pushing the Taliban out of areas of Helmand and Kandahar in the south, with schools built and low-level Taliban fighters coaxed back into civilian life. But effective local government has been more difficult to stand up, according to observers in the southern provinces - and assassinations of local officials continue.
And there are still vast tracts of the country where neither government forces nor NATO-led forces hold sway. Reporting in the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes this week from Ghrak district in Kandahar, Heath Druzin wrote that the struggle won't be won in model villages but by "gaining control of lawless regions like this mountainous, rock-strewn corner of Kandahar province, where opium is the currency and the Taliban (are) the law." Despite huge efforts, "much of the Taliban's spiritual homeland is still violent and largely out of reach of the Kabul government," he wrote.
And not just the Taliban's spiritual homeland. To the east, a forbidding collection of mountainous provinces along the Pakistani border represents if anything a more formidable challenge.
Allen told Brookings the focus this year would be on "consolidating our hold in the south while we'll continue to employ our combat power … to take care of the insurgency as it has continued to boil in the east."
Insurgent attacks increased some 20% in eastern Afghanistan over the last year, and NATO-led forces intend to boost combat power in the region this year, while pushing two corps of the Afghan National Army into the lead.
Helping to keep that insurgency boiling in the east is the resilient Haqqani Network. A recent paper by the nonpartisan Institute for the Study of War described the group as "Afghanistan's most capable and potent insurgent group, and they continue to maintain close operational and strategic ties with (al Qaeda) and their affiliates."
The report's authors said the network had "expanded its reach toward the Quetta Shura Taliban's historical strongholds in southern Afghanistan, the areas surrounding Kabul, (and) the Afghan north."
Pakistan: Spoiler or supporter?
Senior U.S. officials have persistently accused elements in Pakistan's military intelligence service of aiding the Haqqanis as a way of ensuring Pakistani influence in Afghanistan. (It's no coincidence that Indian interests in Afghanistan have frequently been the Haqqanis' targets.)
In the current edition of The New Yorker, author Steve Coll surveys what has happened to the aims of the much-heralded "strategic dialogue" between the United States and Pakistan, developed in 2009. "Three years later, those ambitions are in tatters," he writes, "undone by the Raymond Davis affair (the CIA contractor who shot dead two men in Lahore last year), the killing of Osama bin Laden, and continuing drone strikes."
Coll, author of "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden," says that the senior Pakistani officers he met on a visit in February "were unyielding in their resentment of American unilateralism, and the violations of Pakistani sovereignty and dignity that drone strikes represent."
Pakistani-U.S. relations were also dealt a critical blow by NATO airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last fall. Only in the last week have high-level, military-to-military talks resumed, with the accent on improving border coordination.
If the United States is to bring the "good Taliban" to the negotiating table, it needs the goodwill of Pakistan, which according to many outside observers continues to provide sanctuary to the movement's senior leadership in Quetta and Karachi. Attempts to find interlocutors among the Taliban have made - at best - stuttering progress.
Tortuous negotiations are said to be continuing about the release of five senior Taliban figures held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, so that they can represent the movement in Qatar. But the Taliban said in a statement this month that the "atmosphere for negotiations" had been soured by the burning of the Qurans, the killings in Kandahar and video of U.S. Marines apparently urinating on the corpses of Afghans.
'Good enough' for Afghanistan
Above all, time is short. Some 23,000 U.S. troops are set to leave Afghanistan by the end of September. The intensive pace of operations by U.S. Special Forces will in part make up for the erosion in numbers, but the curtain call for combat operations may be just 18 months away.
There is also the psychological impact of growing hostility toward the war back home, fueled in part by the negative headlines of the last few months that author Broadwell calls "the near perfect storm." According to a CNN poll out Friday, support for the war in Afghanistan has fallen to an all-time low in the United States, with the majority of Americans saying the United States should withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan before the 2014 deadline set by the Obama administration. The CNN/ORC International survey released Friday indicated 25% of Americans favored the war in Afghanistan, with 37% saying things are going well for the U.S. in Afghanistan.
History suggests that the Western presence in Afghanistan may be a brief interlude before the remorseless logic of ethnicity and tribe, and the competing interests of neighboring states, reassert themselves. So it was with the British and Soviet occupations in centuries past. Lofty ambitions of reconstruction and democracy have faded. When he was NATO commander in Afghanistan a year ago, Gen. David Petraeus told a congressional hearing: "We are after what is, in a sense, good enough for Afghanistan."
Part of that "good enough" is a financial commitment that will not be popular in Congress or on Main Street.
"Afghanistan cannot sustain the training and equipping of its security forces - our ticket out and the ostensible guarantor of Afghanistan's future security - with its own sources of revenue," Broadwell said.
It also means progress toward a strategic partnership with Afghanistan, one that faces hurdles over the leadership of nighttime raids and who controls detention policy. Successive U.S. administrations have found Afghan President Hamid Karzai to be a mercurial partner. After the Kandahar killings, he called for U.S. troops to leave Afghan villages, and, referring to the Taliban and the U.S. presence, said: "There are two demons in our country now."
As combat winds down in Afghanistan over the next two years, and the accent shifts to a transition to Afghan leadership, there are faint echoes of what U.S. broadcaster Walter Cronkite said in February 1968 after a visit to Vietnam.
"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
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The question isn't whether it is unraveling. It is, beyond killing bin Laden, what did we think was going to happen? IF you didn't see this catastrophe coming, you weren't being honest.
I dread going in for my physical today. I know the doctor is going to stick his finger up my Palin.
hahahahahaha, wow I'm immature. well said.
There is now way we or anyone can impose a 'democracy' on these people. They have been content to live in a clan-based society for centuries, pragmatically accepting modern concepts and material goods as benefits them, but steadfastly refusing to bury old hates or denounce the theocratic notions of their warlords.
Karzai is little more than a regional governor of a puppet quasi-state and will fall as soon as our money stops flowing into his coffers, since he will no longer be able to pay the graft it takes to stay in power.
Thousands of our troops dead, more thousands of them cruelly injured, many thousands of Afghans dead and injured and things are materially no different now than they were ten years ago.
A day or so ago CNN asked what you would spend your money on if you won the Mega-lottery, which then totaled about $500 million. I replied that I would finance the war in Afghanistan for 40 hours, (current cost is $300 million a day). Just think–$2.1 billion a week, $109.2 billion a year!
For what? We are no safer from Islamic fundamentalist-driven terrorism, the Afghan people hate us more now than ever before–we didn't even get a drop of oil!
I still do not know why we invaded Afghanistan when the 9/11 terrorists were all from Saudi Arabia and it is now known that Bin Laden was squirreled away by the back-stabbing Pakistani ISI.
Get all our people out now, no phased withdrawal, just pull up stakes and get out. Leave that festering cess-pit of a country to its own.
carpet bomb the fuck out of these guys, just look at what happened to tokyo during WWII total destruction
Willful ignorance speaks.
Does anyone seriously think that we can accomplish anything in this country? You can't force a pack of violent cavemen into the 21st century. We should get out ASAP and just hope they bomb them selves even further back into the stone age.
whats wrong with you calling them cavemen is that how you guys see the rest of the world u know whats sad is the goverment and the US public belived for 10 yrs that bin laden was hiding in a cave for 10 yrs really is that all there is just a bounch of caves i mean how you can live in a cave for 10 yrs how stupid can you be to think of that 10 damn yrs and look where they have found him no one in afghanistan had ever lived in a freaking cave but its seems like you with all the education and the moden world you have here in the us didnt teach you anything it seems like your own mind is still in a cave maybe you should come out of the cave and really see the world its soooo sad how ignorant people are in this country i mean no wonder the european calls the americans complete idiots yeah go to europea and tell them you are american and see what your respond will be ... dont go to a country and screw up the previous taliban goverment and establish a new one half way done then leve you finish it all the way america should leve when there is enough afghan army and police to take over their own security then america should leve it would be not fair to the afghans cuz if there isnt enough armay and police to protect the afghans then more afghan blood will be spilled remember there is only like 5,000 americans have died but over 100,000 afghans have lost their lifes since the US went over there no more afghan blood shell be spilled its enough.
Asad, actually no. YOU might have thought for the last 10 years he was living in a cave, but the rest of the world knew he was not. There were many reports of him living in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Where exactly and what condition wasnt known or at least not advertized. The fact that it wasnt advertized by the military doesnt mean they didnt have some idea of where he was, just not specifics. The fact that you thought he was in a cave for 10 years or think that everyone else did, speaks volumes about your level of intellect.
As far as the 'taliban government', you like most seem to forget that the taliban wasnt an established government, there was an active civil war going on, remember the Northern Alliance???, and the vast majority of the Afghans were glad to see them go. They may not like what they got, but they werent fond of executions in their soccer fields and executing women for anything and everything as an offense to islam.
You need to drop the anti-american propaganda rags and try to think for yourself.
I have been to europe and afghanistan, and a lot of other places. It seems like you love to bash America but havent really left the cave, aka your moms basement, to be able to do anything but play extremely liberal sound bites.
Do yourself a favor, grow up and think for yourself.
@asad Actually, although I agree with the ignorance displayed by the comment you responded to, several books detail how Bin Laden had lived in a cave on more than one occassion and was pursued from at least two of them by Special Operations forces. The Intelligence community, as reported by much of the media, made it clear back in 2006+ that they did not believe Bin Laden was living in a cave any longer and had ventured into Pakistan. The CNN Report of the testimony gleaned from Bin Laden's widows appears to support this conclusion.
The people who armed the Taliban in the 1980s in order to throw out the Soviet occupation forces had to be the stupidest people in foreign policy on the planet. The Soviets were taking care of the Taliban as only the old Soviets could. Now who were those American idiots? Oh yes Henry Kissenger, Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagen. There wasn't anything that team couldn't couldn't turn into a disaster.
Another VietNam, leaving the country to the enemy. What a waste of American lives, we should have never set a boot on the ground. We could have killed the Taliban and Osama bin Laudin with air power in 10 weeks and let whoever have the country.
War can only be won by decisive and arse-kicking actions! Americans should stop dying if our country is not willing to go the distance!
what distance might that be? 20 years...30? don't forget we have to have at least one war in the mideast going to have an excuse to have troops there.
The terrorists are accomplishing what they set out to do through our weak president Bush, jr by getting us involved in an unwinable war to break our country financially and screw up a lot of people for life.


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On Monday, Paul Anka found out a song he wrote with Michael Jackson had been released under the name "This Is It." And on Tuesday, he sat down with Access Hollywood's Tony Potts to discuss the controversy surrounding it.
"So when did you find out 'This Is It' was your song?" Tony asked.
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"Yesterday when my phone started ringing off the hook," Paul laughed. "They were saying, 'There's a song they think is familiar to one you wrote for Sa-Fire.'"
Paul said he was surprised — to say the least — when he heard the recording of Michael singing "This Is It."
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"Were you shocked?" Tony asked.
"Yeah! Shocked that they'd gone this far and it was already released," the legend said.
"It was all over the news [that] I was threatening a lawsuit," he added, laughing.
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"Did you think there were any shenanigans?" Tony asked.
"At first I did," he said. "At first blush… and when I started looking at it I couldn't understand why anyone would do anything like that."
The Jackson estate said it made a mistake not crediting Paul with being co-writer on the song.
Now, Paul will not only get co-writing credit with Michael, but also 50 percent of the royalties.
As for Sa-Fire, who recorded the song in 1991, she is thrilled Michael's rendition of the song is out there.
"It's extremely overwhelming and emotional for me because… it's the King of Pop," she said. "I'm so happy that something good came out of what I did… When I did sing it, I sang it from the heart."
Sa-Fire said that after she first met Michael, the song, originally called "I Never Heard," was given to her with both Michael and Paul's blessing.
And La Toya Jackson, Michael's sister, told Access she too is happy about the single's release.
"It's wonderful to hear something from him because he hasn't had anything out in awhile," she told Access on Monday evening.
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The Beggar's Opera at the 4th Athens Biennale, AGORA . Source.
If you thought the Greek economic crisis had faded into irrelevancy, think again. Greece may not dominate headlines as it once did, but here, issues of value, capital and labor are fermenting, combusting, imploding, and reforming in ways that have international significance. The 4th Athens Biennale (AB4) has broached this reality head-on by installing a biennale in the old Athens Stock Exchange building that closed in 2007, and by taking as its title the word AGORA, which has come to mean "marketplace" in modern Greek, but which, in ancient times, referred to a gathering space that had overlapping social, commercial, and political uses. In order to create a space of true and viable exchange in a building once defined by power imbalance and manipulation, the biennale was organized according to a radical system. Instead of a single curator, the exhibition was organized by some forty people who responded to an open call put out only six months ago. The result is an electrifying example of networked culture in practice; of collective action enacted within what is arguably still an institutional frame of the art world itself, an agora. To get a deeper understanding of AB4's aims, and to learn how this all worked in practice, I caught up with Poka Yio via email after visiting the exhibition during the opening days. An artist himself, Yio is co-founder of the Athens Biennale along with Xenia Kalpatsoglou and Augustinos Zenakos, and a co-curator of the current biennale.
Stephanie Bailey: Can you talk about how the 4th Athens Biennale was organized in only six months, and through an open call inviting not one, but many curators?
Poka Yio: When asked what, in our opinion, a biennale is, our answer is: "an X-ray of today." But what is today? In the past, the two-year period was perfect to put together such a big endeavor as a biennale, but this has changed dramatically. Now we are witnessing an unprecedented acceleration of history, and creators, theorists and all sorts of analysts fail more and more to grasp it. The financial analysts have failed to overcome the crash, the political theorists have failed to arm us with the political means to withstand the social pressure without the loss of civic and human rights, and art fails to present "today" in its meta-language.


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NBC's Mitchell Trumpets 'Political Superstar' Michelle Obama; 'All About Hugs'
Andrea Mitchell gushed over Michelle Obama on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, labeling her a "political superstar" and "her husband's best campaigner, hardly needing to practice with the Teleprompters or get a feel for the stage." Mitchell went out of her way to point out how Mrs. Obama apparently is "all about hugs, connecting to people with a physical embrace." [audio available here; video below]
The correspondent also emphasized the First Lady's supposed celebrity status by noting how she has "become a regular on late night," and playing clips from interviews she gave to Ryan Seacrest, David Letterman, and to E! News.
Anchor Brian Williams teased Mitchell's report by proclaiming that "the First Lady is the star attraction of this convention as it gets underway." After using her "political superstar" label, the NBC journalist continued by stating that Mrs. Obama was "once a reluctant campaigner, now, she is a woman with a mission. Michelle Obama is now a political pro."
In addition to her soundbites from the First Lady's interviews with
Seacrest, Letterman, and E!, Mitchell played clips of Mrs. and Mr. Obama
at recent campaign events. She ended her report by stating that "four
years ago, Mrs. Obama was trying to make America more comfortable with
her. Now, she is trying to make Americans feel better about her husband."
This is just the latest example of NBC Nightly News going gaga over Mrs. Obama. Just over a month earlier, correspondent Chris Jansing touted her appearance at the London Olympics: "From cheers for the torch making its way along the River Thames, to delighted children playing with First Soccer Mom Michelle Obama and superstar David Beckham."
The full transcript of Andrea Mitchell's report from Tuesday's NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Chuck Todd starting us off from the floor, which brings
us to Andrea Mitchell, who will have one of the best seats in the house
- just off the podium here - with a preview of the First Lady's
appearance here tonight. Andrea?
ANDREA MITCHELL: Good evening, Brian. Michelle Obama is a political superstar - much more popular than her husband. Once a reluctant campaigner, now, she is a woman with a mission.
MITCHELL (voice-over): Michelle Obama is now a political pro, her husband's best campaigner, hardly needing to practice with the Teleprompters or get a feel for the stage. Aides say she will try to project empathy toward struggling middle class families and motivate women voters.
MICHELLE OBAMA (from campaign event): This election, ladies, is a choice about supporting women and families in this country. (audience cheers and applauds)
MITCHELL: The President said he'll be watching at the White House.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (from campaign event): So, I'm going to be at home and I'm going to be watching it with our girls, and I am going to try not to let them see their daddy cry. (audience laughs) Because when Michelle starts talking, I – I start getting all misty.
MITCHELL: Ryan Seacrest asked Mrs. Obama today about Ann Romney's big speech.
RYAN SEACREST (from interview on "The Ryan Seacrest Show"): Ann Romney – she wants to be the new First Lady, and she gave a much buzzed-about speech at the RNC. What was your reaction to her speech?
M. OBAMA: You know, I didn't watch it.
MITCHELL: In her speech, Mrs. Obama will also try to inspire young people to vote – here with Ross Matthews for E! News.
M. OBAMA: Voting is – it's how this country runs, and it's our responsibility, at whatever age, to exercise the rights that people before us fought so hard for us to have.
MITCHELL: In the White House, she's worked for military families, fought childhood obesity, become a regular on late night.
M. OBAMA (from CBS's "Late Show With David Letterman"): Being out there, touching people, talking to people, it really gets me focused on what we're doing and why we're doing it.
MITCHELL: And if her husband is sometimes called too cool, she is all about hugs, connecting to people with a physical embrace.
ROBERT GIBBS, PRESIDENT OBAMA SENIOR CAMPAIGN ADVISOR (from interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports"): Look, she's completely at ease, completely comfortable – again, the best advocate that we could possibly have for the President.
MITCHELL (on-camera): Four years ago, Mrs. Obama was trying to make America more comfortable with her. Now, she is trying to make Americans feel better about her husband. Brian?
WILLIAMS: Andrea Mitchell down near the podium for us tonight – Andrea, thanks.


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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Foul play is now suspected in the case of a missing St. Johns County woman, Sheriff David Shoar said at a news conference Friday afternoon.
Investigators initially said no foul play was involved in 67-year-old Barbara Parchem's disappearance, but Shoar said circumstances now have led them to believe otherwise, specifically the length of her being missing.
"Our message today is, No. 1, we're not going to stop until we find Barbara," Shoar said.
Deputies stopped searching the area surrounding Parchem's Vermont Heights home two weeks ago but were still following up on leads. Investigators searched using a helicopter, four-wheelers and horses for her.
Her family reported her missing April 6 when she didn't show up for work at Village Inn. Parchem was last seen in the early evening hours of April 5. (She's pictured right entering a convenience store early in the morning of April 5.)
Parchem's car, wallet and credit cards were still at her house, and family members said she had been struggling with personal and health issues.
Investigators went door to door in Parchem's neighborhood passing out flyers, hoping someone had information.
Parchem's daughter, Lilly Ann Chavez, admitted her mother had been going though a lot. She'd been battling cancer, and her husband, who she'd known since she was 13, died recently.
Still, Chavez doesn't believe her mother would hurt herself or just leave.
Shoar said Equusearch, which specializes in searches in missing persons cases, will be joining the search in the next week.
"As a result of some of the evidence, we're going to be conducting some more laser-focused searches in the coming two or three days within St. Johns County," Shoar said.
Shoar said investigators are looking at a "field of individuals," but have not named any persons of interest. He said there are no indications the public is in danger.
"If anybody out there knows anything about where Barbara is or what happened to Barbara, it would behoove them to come forward as soon as possible," said Shoar, who added that he knew Parchem personally.
Parchem is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and 100 pounds, with brown eyes and short brown hair with blonde highlights.
She was last seen wearing dark pants, a gray hoodie and a dark shirt.
Detectives said they're continuing to seek information from witnesses who may have seen Parchem's car in the southwest portion of St. Johns County the afternoon of April 5. The 2005 red Nissan Pathfinder has a heart in shoe polish on the rear passenger driver's side window.
The St. Johns County Sheriff, David Shoar made a personal and passionate plea to the community Friday evening, asking them to keep looking for Barbara Parchem, who was last seen three weeks ago.
The Sheriff said Friday they believe something criminal happened to Parchem.
"Our message today is, we won't stop until we find Barbara," said Sheriff Shoar.
Parchem works at the St. Augustine Village in On U.S.1, and her co-workers are still hoping that she'll come home.
"We're just still hoping. Anytime somebody asks if she used to work here, I say no, she still works here. Until I'm told otherwise, she still works here," said Parchem's co-worker, Terri Falandys. "I worry, can't sleep. I pray for her, you know."
"I pray she's still with us, each day, that looks less like a possibility," Shoar told the media Friday. "We find people who do bad things to good people and we make sure they get arrested and prosecuted, but we won't stop, we do it 24hours a day, 7 days a week."
Investigators, friends and family are all hoping Parchem will come home alive, and hope someone has the answers to help find her.
"We're just really glad they're putting all the time and effort into finding her, because we want her home and that's what this is, this is her home," said Falandys.
Friends of Parchem are offering a reward to anyone who has information leading to her whereabouts.
Anyone who has seen seen Parchem or has information that could help the investigation is asked to call Detective Jeremy Russell of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office at 904-209-2193 or Crime Stoppers at 888-277-TIPS (8477).


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When looking at a player's peak
performances, it's important to examine some of the universal
characteristics of those best performances. This way the player will
have more control and awareness about these peak performances and they
won't seem as mysterious as they once might have.
In the flow, in a groove, on a roll, in the zone -
whatever you call it, it's all defining one thing. It's that special
feeling of playing like you can do no wrong and everything goes your
way. You are so involved in what you are doing that nothing else seems
to matter because you are so connected to your task.
Unfortunately, these peak performances don't seem to
happen often enough. In fact, every time it does happen, it is usually
by chance, it just happened to be a day when everything fell into place,
clicked for you, and you got a taste of what it's like to be in the
zone. It's kind of like getting a taste of the good life. Hopefully this
occurrence will motivate you to do everything you can to have more peak
By implementing mental training skills and working
effectively as a team, you can increase the chances of this transpiring
on a more consistent basis and you will be able to be in the zone as one
harmonious unit. Being in the zone means doing more than anyone else
thought possible, even superseding your own expectations at times. This
zone is the definitive reason why many people are motivated to
participate in sports.
The days of getting psyched up to play are over.
Research has shown over and over that the best performances occur when
you are just slightly above your normal state of arousal, not at the
extreme end of the spectrum as once thought. You are energised, yet
relaxed it's a subtle balance of quiet intensity. Your mind is calm and
your body is ready to go. You feel relaxed, but you are able to move
with great strength and ease.
Not letting a lapse in performance undermine your
belief in your overall abilities is at the core of this characteristic.
When you are playing well, you feel confident that no matter what you
are up against, you are going to come out on top. You just exude with
confidence and pride, and it is evident in your performance. There is no
Confidence on the inside is outwardly shown by way
of your presence, your walk and your facial expressions. You should
expect to be successful, not hope or wish to be successful. You must
adopt a confident, winning attitude. It is trusting your instincts and
intuition to do the right thing at the right time; and if you are
prepared, you can be confident that this will happen. This complete
faith allows you to just know that you are going to do everything
necessary to be successful without the conscious use of reasoning or
Completely focused
You are totally absorbed in the moment. You have no
memory of the past and no qualms about the future; you are here now. The
only thing you are concentrating on is the task at hand. You are
oblivious to everything else going on around you, consumed by the
Like a child playing with their toys, you are so
absorbed in the moment that nothing outside can effect you. You have no
real sense of time, and before you know it, the game is over. The game
seems to have flown by, and at the same time, everything you did seemed
to happen in a slowed-down pace with great precision and concentration.
Having the ability to stay in the moment is a gift that all of peak
performers have.
Things just sort of happen with little or no effort
whatsoever. All your moves are smooth and for that time, your sport
seems like the easiest thing in the world. You are in a state of mind
and body where you can accomplish great things with little effort. Your
mind and body are working with one another in perfect unison.
The grace and ease that you display make everything
you do seem like the simplest task in the world. You have a sense of
finesse and grace, even when the task is very gruelling and demanding.
That sort of connectedness and moment of greatness is an awesome thing
to both witness and take part in.
There is no interference from your thoughts or
emotions. Things are just happening, both without protest and without
consent. You are on autopilot - just reacting to whatever comes your
way. Your body just seems to know what to do without any directive from
you. There is no conscious thought involved; you're going strictly on
your instincts. If you think less, you will achieve more.
When you're in the flow, the enjoyment is
incomparable to anything else. You feel like when you were a kid
enjoying your sport with pure and innocent delight. Anyone can see in
your eyes the satisfaction and fulfilment the sport gives you. You feel
like your sport is giving you back something that you can't get from
anyone or anything else. This is a key factor because if you don't enjoy
your sport, your future in it will be limited.
In control
You feel that no matter what, you are in control.
What you think and want to happen will. You have ultimate command over
your emotions as well - you are controlling them, not the other way
around. When you are in control, you are in charge. You govern your own
destiny. When you feel this strong of a command over your game, great
things are sure to happen. The authority is yours, and no one else's.
Success in sports requires both your mind and your
body and as an athlete it is very important to have a clear mental
picture of what it is you are striving for. By taking some time to think
about peak performances you have had in the past, it can aid you in
making sure they happen more often!
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HHS Secretary Sebelius: Church Groups Must Provide Contraception
'We have a year to figure out how to violate our conscience,' says Cardinal-designate Dolan. All options on the table
WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed today that church-affiliated hospitals, agencies and universities will be required to provide contraception and sterilization in the health insurance they provide employees.
However, nonprofit religious institutions will receive an additional year to accommodate this controversial regulation covered under the new health bill, with an extended deadline of August 2013.
In a blow to the U.S. bishops and Catholic institutions that had lobbied for a broader exemption for church-affiliated organizations, the HHS secretary released a statement Jan. 20 approving the final rule for mandated preventive services for women. Houses of worship are exempted from the rule.
"I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services," Sebelius said. "The administration remains fully committed to its partnerships with faith-based organizations, which promote healthy communities and serve the common good. And this final rule will have no impact on the protections that existing conscience laws and regulations give to health-care providers."
The secretary's judgment was broadly contested by a range of Catholic leaders and religious-freedom advocates.
"In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences," said Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a statement.
The cardinal-designate continued, "To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty."
Thomas Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, also challenged the position of the HHS secretary.
"What we are seeing here is precisely what the First Amendment was intended to prohibit: state action targeted against the religious consciences of particular religious communities, and intended to attack their conceptions of justice, equality and the common good. It is tyranny, pure and simple. The stakes go beyond the questions of contraception and abortion to the very meaning of American democracy," he added.
Richard Garnett, a leading constitutional scholar at the University of Notre Dame, characterized the HHS ruling as "cynical," "regrettable" and "insulting to many faith-based organizations and institutions that supported the new health-care law."
"Combined with the extreme position the administration took before the Supreme Court in the recent Hosanna-Tabor case — a position that all nine justices rejected — this decision reveals the administration's troubling inability to appreciate the importance of our 'first freedom' and a disappointing disregard for the religious consciences of individuals and for the integrity of religious institutions' social-welfare and educational work," said Garnett.
Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Religious liberty, said the conference had received "very little notice" before the final rule was issued. "There was a notification this morning and the rule came out around noon," said Bishop Lori.
He said it was too early to confirm how the U.S. bishops and church-affiliated institutions might respond.
"I don't think anything is off the table. We will look at our options, from public statements to other kinds of redress in our legal system," he said, noting that the extended deadline provided valuable time for deliberations.
"One of the first things to do is to work together with all our Catholic institutions because no one got a pass — not our dioceses, health care institutions or universities. We want to work together as a Church, and continue building a coalition with as many ecumenical partners as we can."
The USCCB and the Catholic Health Association (CHA), a trade organization, were early advocates of the Obama administration's effort to expand coverage to uninsured Americans. The bishops' conference withdrew its support for the final bill, amid concerns about abortion services and funding and conscience rights for health-care providers.
Sister Carol Keehan, CHA's president and CEO, insisted that the administration could be trusted to protect conscience rights. However, the CHA has sought a more robust exemption for the HHS contraception mandate, and a statement today expressed disappointment with the final rule.
Additional Year to Comply
Sebelius' statement issued today provided a recap of the mounting controversy over the agency's interim final rule, deemed unacceptable by Catholic institutions because it would require their private health-insurance plans to provide contraception, including abortifacients and surgical sterilizations in violation of Catholic teaching
"In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule that will require most health-insurance plans to cover preventive services for women, including recommended contraceptive services without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible," Sebelius said.
"Today the department is announcing that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health-insurance coverage will have access to the full range of the Institute of Medicine's recommended preventive services, including all FDA-approved forms of contraception."
The statement defended the final rule as scientifically sound and "consistent with the laws in a majority of states that already require contraception coverage in health plans and includes the exemption in the interim final rule allowing certain religious organizations not to provide contraception coverage."
Kick the Can
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has challenged the constitutionality of the contraception mandate in court, filing two lawsuits on behalf of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina and Colorado Christian University.
"This is a shameless attempt to kick the can down the road in an election year," said Hannah Smith, senior legal counsel for the Becket Fund in a statement released today. "Religious colleges, universities and hospitals will never pay for abortion drugs in violation of their religious beliefs — this year or any other year."
"The administration has seen the writing on the wall. They know that this mandate cannot survive constitutional scrutiny any more than their 'extreme' position in Hosanna-Tabor did. So the administration is trying to delay the inevitable judgment day," added Smith.
Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, commented, "It is the greatest irony that, by worshipping the cult of 'choice,' the Obama administration has determined that religious organizations lack the freedom to act in fidelity to their beliefs. The White House has sold the First Amendment for a few pennies of political support from the ACLU and the abortion lobby."
Since the interim final rule was issued in August 2011, Church leaders have campaigned to rescind the inclusion of contraception and sterilization in the array of "preventive services" for women covered under the new health bill. Catholics throughout the country were asked to send comments to HHS, and representatives from a variety of church-affiliated organizations met with the administration or sent letters to advance their position.
John Garvey, president of the Catholic University of America and a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Religious Liberty, said he had previously discussed the church's concerns with administration officials and received a call from the White House earlier today about the impending announcement. He expressed dismay at the final rule, and said it revealed "a distressing lack of concern for matters of religious conscience or principal," reflective of a series of actions taken by the executive branch over the past year.
Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, expressed disappointment that the religious exemption had not been broadened to shield social agencies as well as rectories.
"Catholic Charities agencies are first and foremost Catholic institutions — a manifestation of the Gospel call for charity and justice for all people. As such, remaining faithful to Catholic teaching is not a matter of choice; rather, it is essential to our identity. With the existing restrictive definition in this mandate, the ministry of Jesus Christ himself would not be considered a religious entity."
The controversy was addressed in a letter this fall by Cardinal-designate Dolan. He said that religious liberty was under threat by a variety of actions at the federal and state level. Last week, during the U.S. bishops' ad limina visit in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI made a reference to the developing situation: "Many of you have pointed out that concerted efforts have been made to deny the right of conscientious objection on the part of Catholic individuals and institutions with regard to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices. Others have spoken to me of a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience."
Joan Frawley Desmond is the Register's senior editor.


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The 6 pm promo for the 11pm CTV news (a Canadian national network) featured – guess who. You'll recognize some graphics. The 11pm news is online here (only up to yesterday at present – I'm not sure whether they stream it at 11 pm or whether it's just an archive.)
I'm on at the very end of the segment at about 28 minutes. A reader says that my segment is here
My Washington radio interview yesterday is online here.


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Greens wants Macklin to live on Newstart for a week
ACTING Greens leader Adam Bandt has challenged Families Minister Jenny Macklin to live on the $35-a-day Newstart Allowance for a week.
Mr Bandt's challenge followed a news conference where Ms Macklin told reporters she could live on the allowance.
But in an official transcript sent out by Ms Macklin's political staff, the question and answer was replaced with the word "inaudible".
Ms Macklin spoke to reporters to promote the Federal Government's new father parenting payment, but was also asked about changes to Newstart.
One such change was to cut payments by up to $110 a week to parents when their children turn eight.
The cut, Ms Macklin said, was to counteract a Howard government change made six years ago.
But she could not tell reporters why such a change was not made earlier in her five-year tenure as Families Minister.
No response to those questions was forthcoming from the Minister's office yesterday (Wed).
While most other government front-benchers kept out of sight yesterday, Housing Minister Brendan O'Connor made on appearance on Sky News.
Mr O'Connor said it would be very difficult to live on the Newstart Allowance, labelling Mr Bandt's proposal a stunt.
Head of the Australian Council of Social Services Cassandra Goldie told reporters it was immaterial whether Ms Macklin actually tried to live on the allowance for a week.
Ms Goldie said she believed it was more important that Ms Macklin deliver a $50-increase to the allowance rather than cutting more people off.
Such an increase has wide-spread support outside of the government including numerous social services groups, the Business Council of Australia, the OECD and former Treasury secretary Ken Henry.
And despite the findings of three separate parliamentary inquiries recommending an increase to the allowance, the government was unlikely to increase the rate.
Ms Macklin has previously said her priorities were about getting more people into jobs, rather than raising unemployment benefits.
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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar announced Sunday that she will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, entering a crowded field of candidates looking to challenge President Donald Trump. Klobuchar is one of several Democratic senators running, and among several women in the field. She said she will campaign at a time when the country is worn down by the "petty and vicious" nature of U.S. politics.
Klobuchar said at a rally in Minneapolis: "I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for president of the United States,."
overhaul of their arcane system of addressing sexual misconduct claims, catalyzed by the Me Too movement. Among several lawmakers who resigned or retired after sexual misconduct allegations was Klobuchar's colleague, then-Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (D)." data-reactid="10″ type="text">Earlier this month, however, it was reported that despite her personable public image, Klobuchar has a reputation for mistreating her staff, leading to high staff turnover rates in her Capitol Hill office, and difficulties securing people to helm her potential 2020 campaign.
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